Voodoo Man

Demented Dr. Richard Marlowe attempts to revive his beautiful wife who has essentially been brain dead for twenty years. He uses a combination of voodoo rites, hypnotic suggestion and transferal of life essences from young girls to bring her mind back. In league with a gas station owner, he determines that they are travelling alone and then kidnaps them with a fake detour. He makes their cars stall before imprisoning them until a life essence transfer attempt. Each failure creates another "zombie" in his retinue. He tries once too often and gets a young woman who picks up a stranded motorist between the gas station and the detour. The man not only knows learns who the girl is, but eventually recognizes where she disappeared. In tracking her down, he inadvertently introduces Marlowe to his fiancee as another possible candidate. He and the sheriff show up at her voodoo transfer ceremony.